Chapter 74 — Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 74

Valmiki Ramayana — Ayodhya Kanda

Verse 74.9

न त्वमश्वपतेः कन्या धर्मराजस्य धीमतः। राक्षसी तत्र जातासि कुलप्रध्वंसिनी पितुः॥ यत् त्वया धार्मिको रामो नित्यं सत्यपरायणः। वनं प्रस्थापितो वीरः पितापि त्रिदिवं गतः॥ यत् प्रधानासि तत् पापं मयि पित्रा विना कृते। भ्रातृभ्यां च परित्यक्ते सर्वलोकस्य चाप्रिये॥

na tvamaśvapateḥ kanyā dharmarājasya dhīmataḥ| rākṣasī tatra jātāsi kulapradhvaṃsinī pituḥ|| yat tvayā dhārmiko rāmo nityaṃ satyaparāyaṇaḥ| vanaṃ prasthāpito vīraḥ pitāpi tridivaṃ gataḥ|| yat pradhānāsi tat pāpaṃ mayi pitrā vinā kṛte| bhrātṛbhyāṃ ca parityakte sarvalokasya cāpriye||

English Meaning

You are never the daughter of the pious and intelligent Aśvapati, you are a Rākṣasī born in that race, you that have destroyed my father's race, inasmuch as the virtuous and heroic Rāma ever observing truth has been sent to the woods and my father has ascended heaven through your agency; inasmuch as you that have perpetrated this arch offence, have laid this sin on me, who have been forsaken by my sire, renounced by my brothers, and come by universal disfavour.

M.N. Dutt (1891–94, public domain)